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| 15.08.2023 | Draper Ass... | draper.vc |
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| 23.02.2023 | Top tech startup news for Thursday, February 23, 2023: Binance, El Camino, Gridium, Make Sunsets, and Replit | Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today Thursday, February 23, 2023. Tech Startup Replit launches a ChatGPT-like bot for coders and starts a browser-based coding revolution Remember back in 2021 when Mar... |
| 23.02.2023 | Controversial geoengineering startup Make Sunsets releases balloons containing sulfur dioxide on U.S. soil after it was banned in Mexico | Late last year, we wrote about Make Sunsets, a solar geoengineering startup that’s mimicking volcanic eruption to cool Earth. In December, the controversial startup released sulfur particles into the atmosphere in an attempt to stop climate... |
| 21.02.2023 | Exclusive: Inside a Controversial Startup's Risky Attempt to Control Our Climate | Founder Luke Iseman and co-founder Andrew Song of solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets hold a weather balloon filled with helium, air, and sulfur dioxide at a park in Reno, Nevada on February 12, 2023. Balazs Gardi for TIME Luke Iseman... |
| 28.12.2022 | Geoengineering startup releases sulfur particles into the atmosphere in attempt to ‘stop climate change’ | ”It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this,” that was a statement made by the founder of Make Sunsets about why his startup has to block the sun to save us from the climate apocalypse. But at what point do we say enough... |
| - | Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering, forcing startup to pause operations | On Friday, the government of Mexico issued a statement that it plans to “prohibit and, where appropriate, stop experimentation practices with solar geoengineering in the country.” The startup Make Sunsets, which had been experimenting in Ba... |
| - | Inventor in Baja is testing a plan to cool the Earth by mimicking a volcanic eruption | Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, has raised at least $500,000 to launch his sunlight reflection company, Make Sunsets. Make Sunsets plans to launch three balloon test launches releasing sul... |
| - | One simple graph shows why we need to study ways of reflecting sunlight to cool the Earth | For the first time, the quadrennial U.N.-backed Montreal Protocol assessment report included an entire chapter addressing stratospheric aerosol injection, more colloquially called solar geoengineering. It’s a way to cool the atmosphere by i... |